New Semester!!!

Today we began the second semester of the 2018-2019 school year. This means that I am now in Western Civilization. I got bumped up to honors, and i'm really excited to show myself what I can do! we watched a video today. Here are the notes:

New Guinean language and information is mainly taught through the natives
Cargo is used as evidence for power, the westerners had more cargo, meaning they had more power
Race also determines power, Europeans and white people were superior
Why do white people have more? (could be traced to inequality)
Pre-historic civilizations were more or less the same
They were nomadic, hunter-gatherers, moved where the animals were
Some hunter gatherers are still in New Guinea
Hunting and gathering is not very productive
Wild sago is an important source of food in New Guinea (cant be stored for a long time)
Wheat was the plant that led the way for modern civilization (not really)
In the middle east, wheat was stored in a mud walled building, instead of nomads, they became the first farmers
Changed the plants around them (domestication)
New Guinean people were also farmers but never got to modern civilization, Why?
Plows made the production of crops much faster, more people to feed, more money
without the animals needed, you could not use a plow
these animals were horses and ox

I look forward to learning more!